[mythtv] Many Myth Patches....

[Robert Johnston]

On Jan 20, 2008 1:50 AM, Sid Boyce <sboyce at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> Whatever their merit, it's unrealistic to expect myth developers to
> scour the internet, analyse and integrate patches into their development
> tree when the authors of these patches could quite well do that job
> themselves. There must be a reason why they don't want their work to be
> a part of the main development - perhaps the goal is to eventually
> create a fork. They must know how to submit patches to myth. Why don't they?
> Try to imagine myth developers' time that would be taken up and away
> from their main task, scanning an outside patch source, integrating  and
> testing them, plus trying to keep up with the follow-up patches.
> Common sense and practicality, not arrogance.

The main reason these patches haven't been submitted for Myth
inclusion is that they are to accommodate Bell Express-View, Dish
Network and Astra in Europe, which use a slightly modified version of
DVB-S, along with supporting "Extended" EIT data on specific channels.
Including them within the main Myth tree would break all the other
DVB/ATSC systems Myth supports, so they're kept as separate. It could
be an option to have them included, but disabled by default, with
switches to enable/disable them, or to create new "Tuning Type" rules
(Or something similar) so they can be picked at setup.

And (with these patches) with a proper CI card, CAM reader, and
"Full-Featured Card" (which are available, and have the necessary
hardware to decrypt signals using a CI), you *can* watch DN/BEV
legally, making full use of your purchased subscription, while not
being tied to a provided box/DVR system.
-- 
Robert "Anaerin" Johnston